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Tent Show
Arthur Names and His "Famous" Players
DONALD WHISENHUNT
INTRODUCTION BY W. KENNETH WATERS
Before movie screens filled the country and television screens filled our
homes, entertainment had to travel to the people. The traveling tent show
was a popular form of melodrama and variety entertainment through
much of the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. One of the last of
these shows belonged to Art Names and His "Famous" Players, a show
that played to venues in Kansas, western Oklahoma, eastern Colorado,
and West Texas from about 1920 to 1945.
Tent Show captures the glamour the shows held for audiences and the
hard work and financial jeopardy faced by their performers. Whisenhunt,
whose father was one of Names's partners, draws on family papers, letters,
original documents, and interviews to shed light on this form of enter-
tainment. Anyone interested in the entertainment business-or curious
about life before television and movie theaters--will find Tent Show to be
an unaffected look at this fast-paced, often unglamorous business and the
people who chose this way of life. $29.95
Through a Night of Horrors
Voices from the 1900 Galveston Storm
CASEY EDWARD GREENE
SHELLY HENLEY KELLY
It had no name and gave no warning, but crept stealthily into the Gulf
and then roared ashore, killing six thousand people. Nearly one hundred
years after its landfall, the hurricane that struck Galveston Island on
September 8, 1900 remains the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. In
this work witnesses to this deadly disaster describe, in many never-before-
published accounts, their encounters with this monstrous storm.
Greene and Kelly, head of special collections and assistant archivist,
respectively, at Galveston's Rosenberg Library, spent several years culling
the Rosenberg's unparalleled collection on the storm. Some of the survivor
accounts included were recorded in the days and months immediately fol-
lowing the disaster; others were put down after many years had passed.
Oral history recordings made in the 1960s and 1970s provided further
accounts given by survivors as they approached the end of their lives.
More than seventy dramatic photographs underscore the catastrophe,
"The cry of the victims as well as the calm assessment of survivors can be
heard through the scream of the hurricane wind that whirled over
Galveston Island in 1900. This collection of reports provides fascinating
reading for all who dare to venture into this nighttime of terror."-David
G. McComb. $24.95
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